Monday, December 31, 2018

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez ----------------- 3 Stars

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I'm happy I selected and stuck with this book for a couple of reasons. First, it's not a book that I would normally read. While it...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Station Eleven - Emiliy St. John Mandel ------------------- 2.5 Stars

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I'm not sure how Station Eleven got on my "to read" list of books. I can imagine it's popularity as it's another pos...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ---------------------- 4.5 Stars

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I can't remember how The Shadow of the Wind got on my list of books to read, but I'm certainly happy it did! It's only about ...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow ------------------ 3.5 Stars

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I would assume that I am part of a majority of people that have read this book in the past three years for one reason - I went and saw Ham...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn ---------------------------- 3.5 Stars

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The Woman in the Window was being marketed as your next Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. While it certainly follows a similar bluepr...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Foundation - Isaac Asimov ------------------------- 4.5 Stars

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As you can probably tell from most of the books I read, I'm not a big fan of science faction (or worst yet, fantasy). In fact, I'v...
Friday, August 3, 2018

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman --------------------- 1.5 Stars

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Apparently, A Man Called Ove is one of the more beloved books in the last few years. I mean, just check out that impressive 4.5 star rati...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward ------------------------ 4 Stars

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I don't necessarily read a lot of new releases or "hot" books, but I simply saw too many out of the universe reviews about S...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

The Chicago Cubs - Story of a Curse - Rich Cohen -------------------- 4.5 Stars

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I'm familiar with Rich Cohen as I read one of his other books and blogged about it here . As you can see, this was about the Chicago B...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger ---------------------- 3 Stars

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Ordinary Grace had been on my to read list for a while now after seeing excellent reviews about this book when it was released a few years...
Monday, May 28, 2018

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah ------------------ 4 Stars

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Kristin Hannah is most well known for the wonderful novel, The Nightingale (review here ). So, it was with a bit of trepidation that I dec...
Friday, May 11, 2018

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood --------------------- 2.5 Stars

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You'd probably have to be under a pretty large size stone to not know about or heard of The Handmaid's Tale . While the book has b...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Fatal Vision - Joe McGinniss --------------------- 5 Stars

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Fatal Vision has been on my "to read" list for a number of years. It's one of the best true crime books ever written, some ...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault -- Jon Krakauer --------------------- 4 Stars

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So, Classic Krakauer is actually a newly released book though it is a collection of essays he's done over the past 20 years. Nearly a...
Friday, March 16, 2018

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas ---------------- 4 Stars

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One of the pleasures of my job, is working with people who put me onto things that I might not otherwise encounter or check out. This is t...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

World Without End - Ken Follett ------------------- 4.5 Stars

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It has been almost 9 years ago to the day since I reviewed Follett's masterpiece Pillars of the Earth. What a great book, and one of ...
Friday, December 22, 2017

The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen ------------------ 2 Stars

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Without a doubt, this is the longest break between blogs since I started over seven years ago. There's a couple of factors. First, th...
Friday, September 1, 2017

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi ------------------------- 4 Stars

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I tend to shy away from "sad" books. There seems to be too much despair in the world, and too many things I've studied in wo...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Carousel Court - Joe McGinniss, Jr. --------------------- 4.5 Stars

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So, how time flies. 8 years ago, I read and reviewed Joe McGinniss Jr's first novel The Delivery Man. I knew him briefly from playing...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami ----------------------- 3.5 Stars

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Haruka Murakami is one of the most accomplished and well known contemporary science fiction writers.  I've had 1Q84 on my list to rea...